Not a problem, just qualify. They wont because they don't know what it means or how to enforce it, so for them, why bother.

Sounds to me like CPS legislation in that state definitely needs reform.

Even if they were acting in what they believed was good conscience, the authorities in this case have a glaring disparity between their paperwork and their actions.

They're claiming the right to commit the child to an institution but are using CPS legislation and not CAT legislation to do it.
That's dishonest, and is making use of a legal loophole to avoid the burden of proof for their rulings, they're acting like judge, jury and executioner before the case even sees the inside of a courtroom. It's undemocratic in the extreme.

To commit a person on the grounds of psychosis, you need a CAT qualification.
To take a child from a parent on the grounds of CPS, you need to demonstrate evidence of child abuse.

The authorities in this case are tying to do one thing, using the rules for doing the other thing.
They should lose a federal court case, but you may need to get the venue changed to a federal (supreme) court because obviously the laws in that particular state are criminally retarded to favour the most unqualified authorities over the rights of individuals.

Yeah, that Cat legislation is some powerful stuff. Cat Act 2011



Not too sure what that has to do with this poor woman and her daughter, but that may have helped these poor people...

Family calls 911 after 22 lb cat gets "hostile"